Students Raid Korea Government Office

Students hurling firebombs stormed a Government building that houses the Prime Minister's office and fought with police officers today, one day after security forces blocked a march to the North Korean border by students seeking reunification.

The police said 26 students forced their way past guards at the Combined Central Government Complex in the center of Seoul, which also houses the Foreign Ministry and other important Government offices.

Students smashed windows and damaged a police post and a waiting room in the complex with firebombs, the police said. The complex is across a main road from the United States Embassy.

Eight attackers barricaded themselves in a third-floor cafeteria in one building and hurled firebombs at riot police before being seized.

At a rally today at Yonsei University in Seoul, other students vowed to lead another 30-mile march to the North Korean border on Aug. 15. They said they would not stop their struggle for reunification of the peninsula, which has been divided since 1945.

The students that attacked the buildings shouted, ''Punish the Roh Tae Woo Government!'' and ''Fight for unification!''

Students have accused President Roh of using repressive and undemocratic tactics to keep South Korea separate from the Communist North and allied with the United States.

The official North Korean press agency said students rallied today in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, to denounce the blocking of the march to the border village of Panmunjom. The report, monitored in Tokyo, gave no attendance figures.

It said Ko Ung Sam, head of the North's student delegation to the planned border talks, vowed to continue a ''persistent struggle'' for the meeting.

On Friday, South Korean police firing tear gas battled thousands of students hurling firebombs and rocks in street clashes when the Government tried to block the march to the border.

The police said today that more than 800 students were arrested Friday and that more than 100 police and students were injured.

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But the protests did not match the intensity of the student-led demonstrations last year that forced the Government to allow democratic changes and direct presidential elections. Mr. Roh was elected President last year, succeeding Chun Doo Hwan, as a result of the protests.

Now the thrust of student protests has shifted to the reunification issue.

In the rally today at Yonsei University, about 2,000 students applauded speeches and shouted slogans. But the mood was subdued after thousands of other students who had gathered at the campus for the march on Friday left during the night.

Speakers denounced the United States and demanded that it withdraw its 42,000 troops based in South Korea under a mutual defense pact.

''Yankee go home!'' and ''Reunification!'' they chanted.

The students claim the United States enforces partition of the Korean Peninsula so it can rule the South. A wave of violent anti-American protests has hit South Korea in the past month.

Small clashes denouncing the blocking of the march were reported in the provincial cities of Taeju and Kwangju. Police firing tear gas dispersed students hurling rocks and firebombs.

Radical students, who are often joined in protests by more moderate sympathizers, represent no more than about 10 percent of South Korean college students, officials say, and have failed to attract wide popular support.

Many South Koreans say they fear the North is determined to conquer the South. North Korea invaded the South in 1950, starting the Korean War. The two nations remain bitter enemies.

President Roh has liberalized the debate on reunification but says the Government, not students, should lead any dialogue with North Korea.

A funeral was planned for Sunday in Seoul for a student who died June 6 after setting himself on fire in a ritual protest. Three students have killed themselves in protests since May 15.

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A version of this article appears in print on June 12, 1988, on Page 1001003 of the National edition with the headline: Students Raid Korea Government Office. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe